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Bug #61579 Segfault preg_replace "/'(\\\\'|\\\\{2}|[^'])*'/" with a long string
Submitted: 2012-03-31 10:53 UTC Modified: 2013-02-17 12:12 UTC
Votes:3
Avg. Score:4.7 ± 0.5
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (33.3%)
Same OS:1 (33.3%)
From: robin at byte dot nl Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 5.3.10 OS: Debian 2.6.
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-03-31 10:53 UTC] robin at byte dot nl
Description:
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When i use this preg_replace with a long string (3487+ bytes) and single quotes it ends up with a segfault...

$str = preg_replace("/'(\\\\'|\\\\{2}|[^'])*'/", '', $string);

with a string longer than 3487 bytes containing multiple quotes.

results in:

php[26779]: segfault at bf737da8 ip b73e4d43 sp bf737c30 error 6 in libpcre.so.3.12.1[b73d4000+28000]


Test script:
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<?

$sql = "UPDATE proposs_conf SET sku_simple = '0,43588' AND array = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' WHERE sku_conf = 'conf43588';";

var_dump(strlen($sql));
$sql = preg_replace("/'(\\\\'|\\\\{2}|[^'])*'/", '', $sql);
var_dump($sql);
?>


Expected result:
----------------
Remove everything between single quotes.

Actual result:
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Segmentation fault

[25236001.222227] php[29917]: segfault at bf37ddc8 ip b744cd43 sp bf37dc50 error 6 in libpcre.so.3.12.1[b743c000+28000]


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 [2012-03-31 11:18 UTC] robin at byte dot nl
Looked a bit deeper/cleaner:

The preg_replace failes when the string between single quotes is equal or longer than 3399 bytes including quotes... 3487 already did seem like an odd number ;)

cleaner would be if you take $string = "'...3397chars...'";
then it fails with segfault, 

$string = "'...less than 3397 chars...'";  works fine.
 [2012-03-31 18:24 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
Cannot reproduce. Could you download source and test against it?
It seems your system's pcrelib problem.
 [2012-03-31 18:24 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2012-10-08 09:46 UTC] serge dot rivest at gmail dot com
It does appear to be failing on this line:

    foreach ($db->fetchAll($sql) as $a)

Very very likely it's just running out of memory. Although every time it crashes 
we also get this in /var/log/syslog:

Oct  8 20:01:39 dev kernel: [726784.383723] php5-fpm[8644]: segfault at 
7fff6b8a2f00 ip 00007f6607c80a7a sp 00007fff6b8a2e90 error 6 in 
libpcre.so.3.12.1[7f6607c6e000+3c000]

Which is bizarre. Might just be a regexp in the DB driver which is being run when 
the process runs out of memory... Hrm, time to try Serges idea of using xdebug. 
And we see:

    0.8160   12868128                                           -> PDO->quote() 
/www/studyladder.dev222/zendframework/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php:296
    0.8160   12868344                                       -> substr() 
/www/studyladder.dev222/zendframework/Zend/Db/Statement.php:198
    0.8160   12868456                                       -> str_replace() 
/www/studyladder.dev222/zendframework/Zend/Db/Statement.php:199
    0.8160   12868472                                       -> preg_replace() 
/www/studyladder.dev222/zendframework/Zend/Db/Statement.php:204

So, probably not running out of memory. This is the code it's crashing on:

        // get a version of the SQL statement with all quoted                                                         
        // values and delimited identifiers stripped out                                                              
        // remove "foo\"bar"                                                                                          
        $sql = preg_replace("/$q($qe|\\\\{2}|[^$q])*$q/", '', $sql);

Don't really know what it is doing, but the regexp looks like this:

/'(\\'|\\{2}|[^'])*'/

And the query it is crashing on does have a long literal string in it with single 
quotes. Tried changing the query to use a long literal string with double quotes 
and that fixes it. Phew.
 [2012-10-08 10:00 UTC] nikic@php.net
I don't know what exactly the problem is you're facing, but there is a good chance that it's just a stack overflow or similar caused by a very inefficient regex.

You might be able to fix it simply by using "/'(\\\\'|\\\\{2}|[^']+)*'/".

The right approach though would be "/'[^'\\\\]*(?:\\\\.[^'\\\\]*)*'/".
 [2012-10-08 11:24 UTC] serge dot rivest at gmail dot com
I guess that's a question for the people in charge of Zend DB, where this pattern 
originates.

I'm just a user ;)
 [2013-02-17 12:12 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Feedback +Status: Wont fix
 [2013-02-17 12:12 UTC] nikic@php.net
Closing as Wfx as this is a PCRE segfault (which is a known issue we can't really fix).
 
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